Dog Repellent?

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Tommy Johnson

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I know this is an off topic, but I have an age old problem that some of you can help me on.

Dogs deficating on my lawn.
Dogs carrying off and chewing up my kids toys.
Dogs scaring my wifes outside cat.
Dogs barking outside my door.

Now the first two are happening during the night and I have performed a search for non-lethal animal control products and they all seem unpractical for my situation. The wife has an outside cat, so any granual repelants or chemicals are a no-no. Bean bag 12 ga. loads well they may lead to some hard feelings (neighbors mistaking me for using the real thing).

So Im up for suggestions on how to rid the "middle of the night" pests. One dog in particular I can catch, but there are two that only run at night.

Let me know if I should just break out the old 22-250 and start this season off early.

TIA
 
Wrist rocket gravel shooter.

Cayenne pepper,strategically placed, works well too.

Garden hose sprayed full tilt boogie works well too,especially if it's a complete surprise.
 
Pepper spray.. (Funny and non-lethal)
Paintball gun.. (fun and great practice)
.17 hmr and a shovel.. (also very fun and less messy)
Punji pit.. (Time consuming)
Tag and release w/ dynamite.. (VERY MESSY!)

I'll think of some more and get back to you..
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If you don't want to kill the dog, but do want the owner to take the problem seriusly, you could live trap the dog, and then call the animal control people in your area to pick it up. Then if he wants it back before they destroy it it'll cost him some cash.

A really great animal deterent is ground habanero pepper. Put it around some bait so they'll be forced to get a good snoot full & you may never see it again. The downside in your case is your outside cat, you'd need to confine it while the pepper is out.
 
Thanks for the great ideas. Isnt it funny how when you are so frustrated about something, your brain goes on vacation and you cant come up with simple solutions.

Im not a confrontational type, the neighbors are new and hate to give a crappy welcome by shotgun blasts.

Live trap for medium size dog $350
Paint gun $150
Slingshot $20

A slap in the face with ground habanero pepper.... Priceless
 
Get the dog into you car and take it into the next county, drop it off at the animal shelter. Tell them you found it wandering around in the Sears parking lot or something. Give no info on yourself so they will think it came from a nearby residence. Your problem will now be miles away and no harm to the dog.
 
Simple
Tell all the neighbors coyotes are threatening your cat and you are setting traps on your property.

If they are too stupid to understand, set the traps. Then call them to remove their dogs from your coyote traps.

Jack
 
Try spraying the yard with a insect killing chemical that doesn't harm the grass, say for grubs and see how that works. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Treat the areas that the dogs have used before with the pepper, they've been known to use the same places. Call animale control about night pick-ups? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Good luck, Good Hunt'n.
 
I watched a buddy light up a neibors cat with his paintball gun for crapping in his rose bushes. That cat caught about 20 paintballs before getting out of site. He hasn't had a problem with that cat lately. If you have ever been hit by a paintball, you know that 20+/- would be a clear message. You might be able to borrow one from a friend or I'm sure they would be more than happy to come by and help you out.

Darrin
 
You can rent paintball guns too. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif Make sure you ask them how to adjust the velocity. Fur is pretty thick and you want to make sure that they get the point w/ emphasis.

Another idea just came to me, use a syringe and replace the paint in the paintball w/ habanero hot sauce. Combine the best of both worlds.
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I guess I'm fortunate to live in a no nonsense community that will not tolerate straying dogs or even excess barking. They'll pick up the animal, and getting it back is an expensive proposition. I simply told my neighbor that picking up his dog's droppings was not acceptable, and that this was his only warning. Boy, did that section of downed fence ever get repaired quickly. He hasn't spoken to me in two years, but it was worth it. If worse had come to worse that Rottweiler was a good size target, but I'd hate to harm someone's pet. Best wishes.

Cal - Montreal
 
Here's a solutuion I offered to my dad who was experiencing the same problem. He had no idea who the dogs belonged to and didn't know how to go about finding out. Live traps failed. I've offered it before on the boards and have found it to be very persuasive. Identify three or four of the animal's favorite hot spots. Take some good grade canned dog food and mix it together with a buttload of baby laxative. Make neat little meatballs that can be strategically placed around the hotspots. Place the gutbombs out at dark and retrieve them in the morning - those that are left. At some point, there will be a Joe's Carpet Cleaning Service van parked in front of one of the neighbors' houses. Why? 'Cause no matter how lightly you sleep, you can't get to the door fast enough at 3 a.m. to let ol' Shep out the door. Hopefully, the neighbor will quickly realize that Shep is getting into something on his nightly forays and that shoveling up behind him in a dogpen on his own damned property is more convenient than having his dog paint the living room walls and carpet brown three nights a week. In my dad's case, it only took one trip for the carpet folks. Hasn't had a problem since. Just make sure you pick them up in the a.m. when your cat will be out and about. Don't wanna self-inflicted "detonation". /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
All these suggestions deal with the dog, not the problem, which is an irresponsible owner. If you know who owns the dogs, tell them to keep them home. If you don't know or they don't keep them home after telling them, trap or catch the dogs and phone the pound.

If you're worried about bad relations with your neighbors, you already got 'em.

I think you should paintball the neighbor, feed him a laxative mixed with habanero pepper,shoot him with a pellet gun, get him in your car and drop him off in the next county at a homeless shelter. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
LanceH, that was funny LMAO, but I bet effective.

I've got more than my fair share of strays because of where I live at. And some of my neighbors let rover out to run all over.

Well my dogs are on 2 1/2 acres fenced, and I had to hot wire the base to keep my beagel from digging under and getting out. Two days work and $300.00 bucks later. So I made the effort to be a good neighbor. My dogs just go nuts when strays are on my fenceline.

I just bought a sling shot for launching ball bearings at some, have used rubber buckshot out of the 12 guage, very loud. I do have a few bean bag rounds that are very quiet and very effective.

Using non lethel methods are probably best. One neighbor let her dalmations run all over and animal control couldn't seem to send her the proper message, so someone put a bullet in one of the dogs, didn't kill the dog, but that have not been out running around since.

Up here in the high desert folks just drop off dogs and cats all the time. Coyotes take care of the cats, the dogs just roam and pack up. So when I'm out calling and rover comes into the call and it's a stray, well you know what happens. It's a sad thing to have to do.

Bottom line try to be nice, but when your the one doing all the clean up on your property day in and day out, DO WHAT YOU GOTTA DO.
 
Originally posted by Redfrog:
[qb]All these suggestions deal with the dog, not the problem, which is an irresponsible owner. If you know who owns the dogs, tell them to keep them home. If you don't know or they don't keep them home after telling them, trap or catch the dogs and phone the pound.

If you're worried about bad relations with your neighbors, you already got 'em.

I think you should paintball the neighbor, feed him a laxative mixed with habanero pepper,shoot him with a pellet gun, get him in your car and drop him off in the next county at a homeless shelter. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif [/qb]
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LMAO RedFrog, damn right !
 
I think Lance and Redfrog are in the x ring!

lance- I can just visualize the one man painting crew. Got caught laughing here at work.

I can't add anything better than what has already been said.

Darrin
 
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